Carries Book Reviews

Project Chameleon: Adventures of Kathe Tierney by Katherine E. Hether
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I won this book from Goodreads First Reads.

Project Chameleon: Adventures of Kathe Tierney is a high intensity, action packed adventure staring Kathe Tierney a special agent working for Alby Airlines. Kathe poses as a regular flight attendant to keep watch on persons of interest during flights. The book starts off with a hostage situation and doesn’t stop from there. The entire story is one long non-stop adventure with Kathe as our heroine. There’s also a bit of a love triangle with Kathe, a famous rock star she meets and a Russian pilot she’s been long time friends with.

I completely enjoyed this story from start to finish. My one complaint with the book is I’d like to have seen the dialogue a bit more broken up. Sometimes it was hard to keep track of the conversations with everything bunched up in paragraphs and there was a lot of dialogue throughout. But overall a completely enjoyable story line that kept my interest from start to finish.

Behind a Lady’s Smile by Jane Goodger
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I won this book from Goodreads First Reads.

Genny Hayes had lived in a cabin in the middle of Yosemite with her father for years until her father was attacked by a bear and killed. She didn’t know her way to the nearest town so when she spotted a photographer in the woods near her cabin she spied on him to see if he was a good man that might help her.

Mitch Campbell had been working as a photographer for years to save enough to open his own studio in New York. When he finds Genny spying on him he startles her and she breaks her leg. Feeling guilty he decides to stay with her until she recovers. When Genny first tells Mitch that she needs to get to England to meet her long lost grandparents who are a Duke and Duchess, Mitch of course agrees to take her thinking of a reward and so the journey begins for the pair.

At first Mitch came across to me as someone more of Genny’s fathers age and not suited for a love interest. But as the story goes on we learn more about the pair and it became a bit more believable of a romance. However, I did find my curiosity over the mysterious Duke and Duchess more compelling to keep reading than the actual romance in the book. Overall I’d say an average historical romance novel. I’d like to of been more into the relationship in the story than I was.

The Secret Fire by C.J. Daugherty
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Sacha Winters lives in Paris and has a curse upon his family that won’t allow him to die, that is until his 18th birthday. Taylor Montclair is a English student who is doing everything she can to get in Oxford, so when her French teacher asks her to tutor a French student in English via the internet she of course agrees since it will look good on her academic resume.

Taylor and Sacha soon find their lives are far more entwined than they would ever have guessed. Taylor just may be the one person who could save Sacha from his curse.

I’ve been on somewhat of a slump when it’s come to young adult fantasies being a bit boring to me for a while. Thankfully with The Secret Fire that completely wasn’t the case. The plot was just enough revealed to keep the pages turning and also make me want to continue on and find out where it will all go in the remainder of the series, so many possibilities to come.

Love the relationship with Taylor and Sacha. There is a reasoning behind them being together but yet it didn’t feel as if the authors were rushing them together and moving the relationship too quickly either.

This is really a typical formula for a young adult fantasy but it stood out on it’s own and had a plot and characters that kept me wanting to know more. Would completely recommend checking this one out.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

The Rock Island Zombie Counteractant Experiment by Better Hero Army
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I received a copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Army Ranger Lieutenant Mason Jones has pulled a red card and sent to finish the remaining months of his duty in a facility where zombies are being kept and experimented on. Everyone at the island has something they’ve done in their past to be sent to such a place as a punishment. When he gets put on the graveyard shift cleaning the zombie cells things immediately start going wrong.

I think if I were rating the series as a whole it would get a better rating. But that being said this book on it’s own just leaves too many questions to score a good rating for me. It started off really well with building the setting, establishing Mason as a character and giving hints to a deeper plot. The problem was that everything ended up rushed through to an end that seemed to leave a lot up in the air.

The length of the book may have been it’s biggest downfall. Too many extra background items being added in with Mason’s past, his purpose of being sent and Dr. Kennedy that didn’t get expanded upon for a short book. The overall action in the book seemed to be a bit predictable too so I was hoping for more to the plot than what I ended up with.

A quick read that gives an interesting new look into the zombie epidemic but would probably be better if picking up the other books in the series at the same time.

The End of the Rainbow by V.C. Andrews
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is the end of the Hudson series and told from Rain’s daughter’s perspective when she’s turned 16. Not the worse I’ve ever read but the story seems to get repetitive as now we deal with a whole new storyline that seems to focus mainly on metal illness. It was one thing when the Hudson family seemed to have one member after another with issues in the earlier books as you’d think ok, it ran in the family but here we have new characters not related and still the same old issues.

I’d also suggest to the Andrews family that maybe it’s time to hire a ghostwriter that can bring the stories into this century as it all seems so outdated at times. The internet is referenced in the story like it’s just been invented and practically unheard of and reading it in the day and age that most people carry smart phones is somewhat laughable.